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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

The Bitter End

18 comments:

I hope Walker doesn't complain about it. Why be like Barry? Just say "I knew what was in store for me when I decided to run. I'm here to fix it." That's how a man does it. Some Dems and Barry aren't aware of that.

The Wisconsin Government has to resolve a $3Bn overdraft left by Jim Doyle and the DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED Legislature. That's a helluvalot bigger than the overdraft left by ....oh, yah, Doyle, 3 OTHER times.

No blame. Just fact. Get used to facts for a change, instead of smoking the HopeyChangey dope.

I don't envy Walker. But he could cut about 50% of DNR with no loss to the State, and about 50% of DHSS, too. Then there's a couple of UW campi that could be sold off.

Big problems, big solutions.

Next: cut back school aids to 50%, fuggedabout 60%, and ZERO State aid for building new local schools.

More than 500 - yep 500 - state legislative seats were picked up by Republicans last night.

That doesn't just help at the Congressional level, but at the State Assembly/Senate level.

Here in my adoptive state, the Rs took control of both the State House and Senate for the first time since... 1870. Our districts are so gerrymandered right now that even though Rs have been getting more total votes in the last several cycles, they have remained in the minority. It took folks $1B in tax increases last year and a $3B hole in the state budget to fight just a little harder this year.

Thats all you little whiny libs have left, anony. A hope and dream in the court system. You are going NOWHERE! How do you like control now, wuss? Take your lawyers and shove em where the sun don't shine.

Judges ought to be appointed based upon their legal training, education, and experience. The public generally selects the best politician in that circumstance. Moreover, elected judges are not necessarily more qualified than their opponents, but instead the elected judges are the ones with the most campaign money. Once a judge has won an election, he/she becomes indebted to those who contributed to their cause.

Our Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves! Through the Constitution, the Founding Fathers created a judicial system with APPOINTED judges because they thought judges ought to be free to implement the law without having to worry about the popularity of their decisions. They recognized that judges have to make tough calls, and should be immune from political pressure to make those calls if beholden to constituents.

By the mid-1800's, states were amending their constitutions to enable judges to run for office. Not surprisingly, these changes were made by the political party in control, in part to advance their agenda.

Roscoe Pound, renowned legal scholar, argued that "putting courts into politics, and compelling judges to become politicians in many jurisdictions...has almost destroyed the traditional respect for the bench".

"Underwritten by the American Justice Partnership, the study, Justice Hijacked, examines a coordinated national campaign, funded by Soros, which poses as a grassroots effort and aims to fundamentally reshape America’s state courts. The movement aims to abolish democratic judicial elections and replace them with a system known as “merit selection.” “Merit selection” would end citizen participation in judicial elections and hand judicial selection over to small, unaccountable commissions comprised of legal elites, typically including representatives of state trial lawyers associations. "